The Uncouth

Filed under: Photo , Video , Macintosh Iris is an OS X app that offers up some cool ways to use your iSight. Of course, it takes still photos and videos. That's useful, but Apple's built-in Photo Booth already offers those features. Iris goes a few steps further, offering a time lapse mode, a secu ...

Filed under: Utilities , Windows , Shareware , Freeware Hard drive prices are so low now that it really makes sense to use an imaging program. That way you've got a perfectly cloned backup of your system exactly the way you have it configured in case of a crash, which is much more convenient than re ...

Filed under: Mozilla , Browsers Opera's speed dial might be a cool feature, but there's no way it's going to make me stop using Firefox. It did, however, prompt me to take a look at the addons site to see what options the Firefox developer community had come up with. For thumbnailed pages, SpeedDia ...

Filed under: Internet , Video , Browsers Apparently a web browser really is the best place to watch online video. OK, that's probably not at all true. But thanks to YouTube, Hulu, and other Flash video based web sites, most users have gotten used to watching video without launching a separate appli ...

Filed under: Internet , Office , Web services Online document storage and sharing service Docstoc has rolled out a new desktop application for Windows and Mac users that lets you automatically upload documents to the web service. Docstoc Sync stuff scans a group of selected directories for new file ...

"The proportion of people with an internet connection who watch TV online was 17% in 2007, compared with 8% the year before. Online advertising spend was up by almost 40% year-on-year, reaching £2.8 billion in 2007. For the first time, more money was spent on internet advertising than the combined ...

CD album sales were down 8.5 per cent in the first six months of the year compared with the same period last year. And in an indication of profit squeeze being felt throughout the industry, revenue from those album sales fell almost 11 per cent."...

"The country's arts sector fears the Conservatives are prepared to slash $50-million in cultural funding after discovering new cuts to federal arts programs. It has been revealed that three programs benefiting the film, television and music industries, totalling $4.3-million, will end as of next Mar ...

The city of Oslo has announced a plan to move several museums and its main library to a central waterside location near the harbour and close to the new NKr3.3bn ($500m) National Opera house....

Everybody wants to be first with a play. Premieres make more news, attract more grants and confer more prestige. There's often money involved--the theater premiering a play sometimes gets a piece of the subsequent action. It's understandable--and even applicable to other professions. Journalists pre ...